“People planning trips
generally want up-to-date information.
How would you like to fly all the way to Gabon and find your hotel went
out of business a year ago?”
“You’d never get me there in
the first place,” he said. “You gotta be
crazy to go someplace like that. You’re
layin’ on the beach there, drinkin’ somethin’ with fruit in it, and the next
thing you know they’re havin’ themselves a cootie tah.”
“A what?”
“You know, where they
overthrow the government. Before you
know it you’re the main course at a cannibal banquet.”
(from The Burglar
Who Thought He Was Bogart by Lawrence Block)
7*/10. The
complete review is here.
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